[Servercert-wg] Initial Vote Results on Ballot SC31v3: Browser Alignment

Wayne Thayer wthayer at gmail.com
Thu Jul 16 15:33:51 MST 2020


Thanks for pointing out my mistake Ryan. The corrected results are below.
Also, a vote was received by Visa after the voting period ended, and as
such was not counted.

Voting by Certificate Issuers – 20 votes total including abstentions

- 15 Yes votes: Amazon, Buypass, Certum (Asseco), Sectigo (former Comodo
CA), DigiCert, eMudhra, GDCA, GlobalSign, GoDaddy, HARICA, Kamu SM,
SSL.com, SwissSign, TWCA, TrustCor
- 4 No votes: Comsign, Entrust Datacard, Firmaprofesional, OATI
- 1 Abstain: D-TRUST

79% of voting Certificate Issuers voted in favor.

*Voting by Certificate Consumers – 6 votes total including abstentions*

- 5 Yes votes: Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, Opera
- 0 No votes:
- 1 Abstain: Cisco

100% of voting Certificate Consumers voted in favor.

Relevant Bylaw references

Bylaw 2.3(f) requires:

- a "yes" vote by two-thirds of Certificate Issuer votes and 50%-plus-one
Certificate Consumer votes for approval. Votes to abstain are not counted
for this purpose. This requirement was met for both Certificate Issuers and
Certificate Consumers.
- at least one Certificate Issuer and one Certificate Consumer Member must
vote in favor of a ballot for the ballot to be adopted. This requirement was
also met.

Under Bylaw 2.3(g), "a ballot result will be considered valid only when
more than half of the number of currently active Members has participated".
Votes to abstain are counted in determining a quorum. Half of currently
active Members as of the start of voting was 10, so quorum was 11
votes – quorum
was met."


On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 11:46 AM Ryan Sleevi <sleevi at google.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 2:20 PM Wayne Thayer via Servercert-wg <
> servercert-wg at cabforum.org> wrote:
>
>> The voting period for Ballot SC31v3 has ended and *the Ballot has Passed*.
>> Here are the results:
>>
>> Voting by Certificate Issuers – 20 votes total including abstentions
>>
>> - 15 Yes votes: Amazon, Buypass, Certum (Asseco), Sectigo (former Comodo
>> CA), DigiCert, eMudhra, GDCA, GlobalSign, GoDaddy, HARICA, Kamu SM,
>> SSL.com, SwissSign, TWCA, TrustCor
>> - 4 No votes: Comsign, Entrust Datacard, Firmaprofesional, OATI
>> - 1 Abstain: D-TRUST
>>
>> 75% of voting Certificate Issuers voted in favor.
>>
>> *Voting by Certificate Consumers – 6 votes total including abstentions*
>>
>> - 5 Yes votes: Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, Opera
>> - 0 No votes:
>> - 1 Abstain: Cisco
>>
>> 83% of voting Certificate Consumers voted in favor.
>>
>
> Wayne: Are these computations correct?
>
> Abstensions don't count as "voting" (for Certificate Issuers or Consumers)
> for purposes of voting, per Bylaws v2.3, Section 2.3(5)
>
> 78.9% of CAs (79%?), as 15/19 voted yes, and 100% of Browsers voting, as
> 5/5 who voted, voted yes.
>
> The absenstensions count towards our quorum/participation, so that would
> mean 26 participants.
>
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